stats(7)

stats7

Information about various and sundry statistics utilities

Overview

The FreeBSD userland in part contains a series of utilities which can be used to ascertain system state at runtime and optionally from core files.

Commands

The following commands (sorted alphabetically) are currently included in the base system, with more appearing periodically.

btsockstat

Show Bluetooth socket information

ctlstat

CAM Target Layer statistics utility

dtrace_mib

Access the MIB stats counters with DTrace

dwatch

Watch processes as they trigger a particular DTrace probe

fstat

Identify active files

gstat

Print statistics about GEOM disks

ibstat

Display information from the InfiniBand driver

ifmcstat

Dump multicast group management statistics per interface

iostat

Report kernel subsystem I/O statistics

ipfstat

Display IPF packet filter statistics and filter list

kldstat

Display status of dynamic kernel linker

lockstat

Report kernel lock and profiling statistics

mailstats

Display mail statistics

netstat

Show network status and statistics

nfsstat

Display NFS statistics

plockstat

Trace pthread lock statistics using DTrace

pmcstat

Performance measurement with performance monitoring hardware

procstat

Get detailed process information

pstat

Display system data structures

sockstat

List open sockets

stat

Display file status

systat

Display system statistics

vmstat

Report virtual memory statistics

zpool iostat

Report ZFS I/O statistics

Releases

18 releases since FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE; the text changed 10 times.

  1. 12.2
  2. 12.3
  3. 12.4
  4. 13.0
  5. 13.1–13.2
  6. 13.3–14.3
  7. 14.4
  8. 14.5
  9. 15.0
  10. 15.1
  11. 16.0

History

The stats manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 13.0.

Authors

Daniel Ebdrup Jensen ⟨[email protected]⟩

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.